Match strip for match-packeting machines



May 11 1926.

N. M. MARKOWITZ MATCH STRIP FOR MATCH PACKETING MACHINES Original Filed July 14, 1923 Patented May 11, 1926.

NATHAN M. MARKOWITZ, OF BROOKLYN,

teasers NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GLOBE DTATGH CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF DELAVIARE.

MATCH STRIP FOR MATCH-PACKETING MIAOHINES.

Application filed July 14, 1923, Serial No. 651,576. Renewed ()ctober 2, 1925.

This invention relates to the art of match packeting, and has special reference to a match strip for match packet-mg machines.

In machines such as are used for match packeting, it. is common to employ a long ribbon like strip of paste-board or other similar material, which is slit in from one side edge to provide separate match splints, the slits stopping in spaced relation to the other side edge so that a base portion is formed to which these splints are connected. Strips of this character, after being tipped with a suitable composition, are fed into the machine and there cut off into suitable lengths for wrapping or covering in a match packet. The cut-off operation is performed by a knife which acts on the base portion of the strip at intervals, the knife being positioned to extend across this base portion. \Vith strips .as ordinarily constructed, it he quently happens that the cut of the knife does not precisely coinicide with a slit. The

. result of this is that the strip is not completely severed at the desired point, the slit running in from one side and the knife cut running in from the other side but lying between two adjacent slits. It is in fact diflicult to so adjust a machine that this knife cut will exactly coincide with a slit at each time that it is made.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide an improved form of matchstrip for this purpose wherein provision is made of novel means so that variation in the position of the knife cut with relation to its coincidence with a slit, may take place without in any way effecting the complete severance of the proper portion of the strip.

To this end the invention consists of a match strip having certain novel details of construction hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed,

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a match strip constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of such a strip with the severed knife in position thereabove.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the severed knife in cutting position.

Fig. 4 is a detail sl'iowing a portion of the strip after it has been severed, the view illusis provided with longitudinally spaced diamond shape holes or openin s 14, the spacing being that suitable to produce sections corresponding to the width of the desired packet, such sections being usually slightly less in width than the width of the wrapper surrounding them in the completed packet.

It will be observed that. these diamond shape openings are so'positioned with re spect' to the slits that each opening has one corner coincident with the inner end of a slit. and the opposite corner in alinement with said slit. While the openings have been shown as of square diamond shape, yet it will be obvious that other shapes of openings may be used, since it is possible to use almost any shape in which the opening is in: tersected at one point by a respective slit. It is preferable, however, to have the point of intersection a pointed portion, which is best formed by sides of the opening being angularly disposed with the respective inter secting slit at the apex of the angle thus constituted.

Now it will also be observed from the foregoing, the knife 15 employed in connection with the packs-ting machine may cut the openings 14. at any place in the width of these openings, and that any such cut will completely sever the match strip 10. For instance, in Fig. at, it is shown that the knife out has occurred to the left of the proper slit formed between the two adjacent splints 12. However, it will be noted that this in no way destroys the complete severance of the strip in two portions. It will be obvious however, that if the opening 14 had been omitted, such knife cut would have been somewhat in the position shown in the dotted lines in Fig. 4i, and thus would have failed to entirely sever the strip into two portions.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. A match strip for match packeting machines consisting of a ribbon like length of material having a multiplicity of spaced slits extending from one side edge toward the other and terminatnig in spaced relation to the last mentioned edge, said strip further having a series of openings therein spaced longitudinally thereof at distances corresponding to the width of a packet and arranged to be each intersected at one point by a respective slit.

2. A match strip for match packeting machines consisting of a ribbon like length of material having a multiplicity of spaced slits extending from. one side edge toward the other and terminating in spaced relation to the last mentioned edge, said strip further having a series of openings therein spaced longiti'idinally thereof at distances correspondin to the width of a packet and arranged to be each intersected at one point by a respective slit, said openings each being shaped to provide a pointed portion having the respective intersecting slit cutting its apex.

3. A match strip for match packet-ing machines consisting of a ribbon like length of material having a multiplicity of spaced slits extending from one side edge toward the other and terminating in spaced relation to the last mentioned edge, said strip further having a series of openings therein spaced longitudinally thereof at distances corresponding to the width of a packet and arranged to be each intersected at one point by a respective slit, said openings each having two sides angularly disposed and having the respective intersecting slit at their apex.

4-. A match strip for match paclieting machines consisting of a ribbon like length of material having a multiplicity of spaced slits extending from one side edge toward the other and terminating in spaced relation to the last mentioned edge, said strip further having a series of openings therein spaced longitudinally thereof at distances corresponding to the width of a packet and arranged to be each intersected at one point by a respective slit, said openings each be ing of diamond shape and having the respective intersecting slit alined with two of its angles and cutting one of the alined angles.

5. In a strip of material having transverse slits extending inwardly from one margin thereof, said strip being provided wit-h a pilot perforation extending longi tudinally thereof and merging into one of said slits, whereby transverse division oi the strip can be ell'ected by severing that portion of the strip between the pilot perforation and the other margin.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

NATHAN M. MARKOWITZ. 

